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Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. Mikhail Bakunin
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature? both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of... Shirley Hazzard
Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust. Siegfried Sassoon
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization. Bruno Schulz
Plato quote: "No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever..."
No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God. Plato
When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself. Richard Bach
William Shakespeare quote: "For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that..."
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more..."
Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass". Norman Vincent Peale
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus. Annie Dillard
Dante Alighieri quote: "There is no greater sorrow. Than to recall a happy time. When..."
There is no greater sorrow. Than to recall a happy time. When miserable. Dante Alighieri
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage. C. S. Lewis
Daniel Defoe quote: "Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than..."
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are. Daniel Defoe
John Irving quote: "Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story..."
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it. John Irving
To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it. Michel de Montaigne
Louise Bogan quote: "O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things..."
O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things move. Than blood in the heart. Louise Bogan

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